... including putting pressure on the PKK’s sponsors among the bloc’s potential members, could also affect and exacerbate Turkey’s already complicated relations with those of its allies from the North Atlantic alliance that continue to support SDF/YPG units in Syria (these are primarily the U.S., France, and the Netherlands).
Rolling out the “Turkish buffer”
Ivan Timofeev:
Ukrainian Crisis, Turkey and Eurasia: Who Wins?
Turkey previously ran several operations against Kurdish left-wing radical units in ...
... outraged in the last 72 hours over our Syria policy than they were at any point during 7 years of slaughter.”
The ordinary American citizen may not know that official US departments and agencies supported and supplied arms to the Kurdish militias PYD and YPG (Syrian offshoot of PKK enlisted as terrorist by NATO), which carried out ethnic cleansing against Arabs in Syria and have sought to establish an autonomous entity. Amnesty International revealed in a report in 2015 that the PYD committed war crimes in ...
... opportunity to have a significant long-term gain if the Turkish operation is successfully conducted
On August 4, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
declared in a speech
during an opening ceremony that Turkey will launch a military operation in Syria’s terrorist PKK/YPG-occupied eastern Euphrates region. After the official declaration of the upcoming operation, there occurred the question of “how will it affect the bilateral relations between Russia and Turkey?” There will be no negative repercussion of the operation ...
... the actors supporting the opposition groups (including the U.S.) volunteered as the guarantor of the dissociation process [
34
].
The freeze of relations between Moscow and Ankara adversely affected both parties. As the U.S. continued to support the YPG in northern Syria, the Turkish leadership’s pragmatism prevailed and resulted in Ankara sending a letter of regret for the incident in 2015. In 2016, Turkey, under new Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım, set a course towards mending relations and reducing tensions ...
Interview with Michael Gunter and Kerim Has
During Press Briefing held on November 27, Press Secretary of the White House Sarah Sanders stated that the United States is now in a position to stop providing military equipment to certain opposition groups in Syria referring to Donald Trump’s phone call with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. According to the Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, Trump had “given clear instructions” that the Kurds (Kurdish People's Protection Units) will “receive ...
